This area of our local village Playing Fields consists of a large mound of earth excavated when the Sports Centre was built in 2003. For the past 9 years it has been left alone. The top of the mound is covered in brambles, nettles, docks and thistles. The area surrounding the mound is grass which has grown more rough and tussocky due to not being cut at all for this period.
The Winkleigh Memorial Playing Fields Committee has agreed that a group of volunteers can manage this area for the benefit of local people and for wildlife.
We started keeping a record of plants and creatures found on the site from April 2012. On 1st May, I saw this caterpillar (Drinker Moth).
Red Admiral butterfly caterpillar in a nettle tent
Orange Tip butterfly eggs on Lady's Smock (or Cuckoo Flower)
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